Gautam Kambhampati

@gautampk

🇬🇧 London & Hull ⚖️ (European) Patent Lawyer 📚 Publisher of @tamarindlit.co.uk 🐺 Defence & Technology at fabians.org.uk 🌹 Co-founder of labourfortheconstitution.org.uk 📡 Physics PhD & Fellow of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

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Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· 10h

Well that scared the shit out of me

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· 1d

This is fantastic, by @suscrockford.bsky.social I was - personally - particularly interested in the analysis of how society views scientists, vs how scientists view themselves, and how those conceptions interact with the sources of science’s legitimacy

A photograph of the cover of:

Crockford, Susannah (2026) A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change from the End of a World. Chicago University Press.

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· 2d

Well that was fun 🔭 Loads of people in the park enjoying a Science Thing, what a great day

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· 2d

Turns out total internal reflection inside the iPhone camera makes for a perfect eclipse viewer… (That crescent above the Sun is the Sun)

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· 6d

Oh, so the over-leveraging of our higher ed sector on intl students is also to blame for the inflation of entry tariffs & all the undue pressure on 6th Formers? You mean it wasn’t just “grade inflation”?? It wasn’t just unis compensating for schools “dumbing down”??? Wha…?! Colour me shocked.

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· 11d

And this, whatever this is, without adding any potentially libellous commentary of my own

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· 16d

🥴

Quotes from physicians interviewed for an upcoming Channel 4 documentary on ADHD.

"It is certainly not a medical condition as far as I'm concerned" - Dr lona
Heath, Former President of the Royal College of General Practitioners

"We've replaced corporal punishment with giving [children] a pill" - Dr Sami Timimi, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· 18d

👍 (@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk)

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jul 10

Jesus fucking christ…

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jul 3

This is a pretty damning chart tbh. Even distribution across quadrants 1 and 4 meaning that when the Economist goes out on a limb, it’s a coin toss for correctness…

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jul 2

missing edward saïd today “Londoners mould homes from clay in desperate effort to escape life in wooden shacks”

A screenshot from the Financial Times showing an article from 2 July 2026, titled: “Gazans mould homes from clay in desperate effort to escape life in tents”.

First three paragraphs of the article, reading:

After two years of living in tents, Jaatar Atallah, a Palestinian potter in Gaza, decided to build a home from the earth. It was to be like the bread ovens his family had been making for generations, but big enough for his parents to live in.

He gathered clay from an area a few kilometres from his tent and - with
the help of about 15 people, including his father, also a potter - he set about making mud bricks.

For months, they learnt as they built. Finally, they completed a domed hut, "so solid you could stand on top of it", said Atallah …

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jun 27

Another Waymo hits a biker. On the Old Kent Road. Waymo turning right. Bike going straight with right of way…

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· May 19

HS2: then and now. Which one of these plans was estimated to cost £32bn and which was estimated to cost £103bn?

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· May 18

tbf I did also get this which is probably accurate

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· May 18

is this a secret ploy to label everyone a Tory 😭😁

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· May 12

a flowchart showing a *simplified* picture of Labour Kafkaesque leadership election procedures fun thought experiment: a vindictive incumbent could stand down before a nom gets 81 MPs & set a rapid timeline for the election, forcing oppos to scramble for CLP support needed for an unforced election

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Apr 17

Interesting to know that if I were a woman it would be 50/50 on Greens rather than 2/1 for Labour

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Feb 19

no for both, but you can always count on the paparazzi to deliver

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Feb 10

I am working on a new science & literature Project

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Feb 8

Ah yes those famously totally apolitical songs *checks notes* Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and American Idiot 🧐

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jan 26

Just looking at Reform’s “mass deportation” [sic] policy. Having central integrated government database is a key aspect of it Brits have historically been (correctly!) very suspicious of such things as an infringement on civil liberties Also: Reform was against Labour’s latest govt ID policy!

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jan 25

BBC Verify have *finally*, at 13:56 - almost a full 9 hours after their first reports - posted an analysis of the widely available video footage. Yet their summary continues to “both sides” the event, repeating Trump Admin lines without summarising outcome of the Verify analysis

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jan 24

absolutely nothing about the reality of what happened in the latest summary. Just a false claim that the news conferences communicated "details" (is that what they're calling "lies" now?)

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jan 24

update.

The Masque of Anarchy (abridged)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Last came Anarchy: he rode
On a white horse, splashed with blood;
He was pale even to the lips,
Like Death in the Apocalypse.

And he wore a kingly crown;
And in his grasp a sceptre shone;
On his brow this mark I saw –
‘I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!’

And a mighty troop around,
With their trampling shook the ground,
Waving each a bloody sword,
For the service of their Lord.

And each dweller, panic-stricken,
Felt his heart with terror sicken
Hearing the tempestuous cry
Of the triumph of Anarchy.

For with pomp to meet him came,
Clothed in arms like blood and flame,
The hired murderers, who did sing
‘Thou art God, and Law, and King.

‘We have waited, weak and lone
For thy coming, Mighty One!
Our purses are empty, our swords are cold,
Give us glory, and blood, and gold.’

So he sent his slaves before
To seize upon the Bank and Tower,
And was proceeding with intent
To meet his pensioned Parliament

When one fled past, a maniac maid,
And her name was Hope, she said:
But she looked more like Despair,
And she cried out in the air:

‘My father Time is weak and gray
With waiting for a better day;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands!

Then she lay down in the street,
Right before the horses’ feet,
Expecting, with a patient eye,
Murder, Fraud, and Anarchy.

When between her and her foes
A mist, a light, an image rose,
Small at first, and weak and frail
Like the vapour of a vale:

And the prostrate multitude
Looked – and ankle-deep in blood,
Hope, that maiden most serene,
Was walking with a quiet mien:

A rushing light of clouds and splendour,
A sense awakening and yet tender
Was heard and felt – and at its close
These words of joy and fear arose

‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.’

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jan 24

current mood (Lord Byron, Darkness)

And War, which for a moment was no more,
Did glut himself again:— a meal was bought
With blood, and each sat sullenly apart
Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
All earth was but one thought — and that was death

(excerpt from Darkness, by Lord Byron)

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Jan 14

🫠

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Dec 1

The person who actually fucked up is whoever made this decision in 2013 to not use the Govt platform and to instead use… WordPress, for completely bogus “autonomy” reasons (how autonomous are you anyway if you’re using HMT mail servers?). Seems like a leadership decision not a technical decision.

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Dec 1

RIP Zipcar

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Nov 25

Bit of a change of tune from Lammy re jury trials. I recall @barristersecret.bsky.social saying in their book that you should always choose a jury trial if possible, because the chances of injustice are much higher in the magistrates’ court.

A Tweet from David Lammy dated 20 June 2020, which says:

Jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea.

The Government need to pull their finger out and acquire empty public buildings across the country to make sure these can happen in a way that is safe.

Gautam Kambhampati@gautampk· Sep 17

I get that this Trump visit to the UK is a Big Deal, but is it really so much of a big deal that there is literally nothing else the BBC considers above-the-fold newsworthy?